53 posts tagged “vox hunt”
Show us the very last picture you took. No cheating!
Check out the glitter roof! The interior seats are upholstered in colorful mexican blankets.
Show us what you'd most like to see delivered by UPS today.
I bought a new chair off the internet yesterday. It will be my only chair for the time being (I got rid of my couch so there's no place to sit other than the floor and the bed right now):
Ctrl-V (PCs) or Command-V (Macs) Time! Paste whatever text you copied last.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_R9fId_Rqo
In honor of Earth Day, show us something (literally or figuratively) green.
My shirt, let me show you it.
Share the song you would choose to come out to in a boxing match.
Show us something that's been dyed.
It's been at least a couple of years, maybe 3 years, since my hair has been one color throughout, and this time it even resembles my natural hair color, last time I think it was jet black.
Show us something handmade that you love.
This dress I got on Etsy a while back:
Show us something you made.
I made some Zuppa Toscana on Friday, like the kind you can get at Olive Garden. It has spicy Italian sausage, potatoes, onions, kale, and bacon, in a thin milk base.
Show us your favorite gadget at work.
All these QOTD about work. My work is so fun, but I can't take pictures because it's all trade secret.
A lot of awesome things I no longer use since I moved to a different department. But I can show you pictures from the makers of these gadgets.
Here's the QPix, it takes pictures of bacterial colonies/phage plaques on an agar plate, the software analyzes their quality (size, roundness, proximity to other colonies), a picking head consisting of stainless steel pins touches the colonies one by one while gliding on a mag-lev track, then inoculates the bacteria/phage into 96-well plates containing growth media. It'll pick about a thousand colonies in 30 minutes. I wish I had one of these in grad school, I had to use sterilized toothpicks:
Images from Genetix
The other gadget I love my company makes, it's called LSRII. It is the most powerful of its kind and the paradigm of flow cytometers. A flow cytometer is a machine that detects fluorescently labeled cells in suspension, one by one by the power of vortex, and it does it really fast (thousands/second) with lasers. It can detect up to 18 colors, meaning in one little tube of sample, you can look at 18 properties on every single cell. And it's really easy to use. It is so freaking cool:
Here's a crappy picture from BD Biosciences
Here's a sweet webpage from some institution describing how it works:
National Cancer Institute
Cartoon format of the picture above:
Show us how you blow off steam.
After a long day in the lab, I come home and basically do it some more. I cook.
This is the banh xeo I made last night.
This picture is from Thailand over a year ago, I don't have more recent climbing pix.
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